Perhaps the reason we have let ourselves grow so out of touch with sacred time is that it does not involve making profit or even making progress. In fact, it entails letting go of the things, like our sense of a lack of material goods or the desire to obtain greater proficiency in one of our recreation activities, that normally drive our lives, and simply rejoicing in what we have. Sheer enjoyment of life, pure celebration, however, involves a quality of play and playfulness, an act of imagination, a capacity to act "as if" that our modern education and work-obsessed lifestyles have allowed to atrophy in us.
— Gary Eberle, Sacred Time and the Search for Meaning